RTSS Overlay Editor Megathread

Hello, this thread is supposed to contain all information you wan't to know about the Riva Tuner Statistics Server Overlay Editor.



This Overlay Editor allows you to easily create customized OSDs however you want them.


First Steps:
Unwinder made 3 Videos which bring you into the topic and show what the Editor can do:
Video 1:
Video 2:
Video 3:
Another Video in Korean. (use english subtitles... starts about OS on Minute 6)
Another Video in Italian. (use english subtitles... stats about OS on Minute 8)
Wolfgangs Guide

FAQ:

Custom Units (Mhz, GB) Formating and Calculations can be done in Data Sources​

In the RTSS Overlay Editor, Data Sources you can not only put in some correction formula and a new unit label but also a format style.

Graphs will always be before Text:​

"graphs don't respect the layer order. I created a diagram of CPU usage of size 1x5 and moved the layer to the bottom, then created a layer with "Text=%CPU usage% %" on top of it. The text even though it's on top most layer it's still under the diagram."
"That's expected behavior and result of optimized single pass overlay rendering and graphics primitives batching. All lines are always rendered in a single pass after all text symbols. That won't change."
(Taken form the comments of the 2nd Video)
Quote Unwinder: It will change with 7.3.2 beta 2. Quote from the release notes:
· Slightly altered geometry batching implementation in On-Screen Display renderer. Previously RivaTuner Statistics Server internally represented On-Screen Display contents as a few uber batches, containing all On-Screen Display geometry grouped by primitive type (for example, the first batch containing triangles representing all On-Screen Display symbols, solid color bars, and embedded images and the second batch containing all lines used to render all graphs). Such batching provides optimal rendering performance and minimizes draw calls count and rendering pipeline state changes. With such implementation it was possible to render On-Screen Display contents in expected Z-order for the same type of graphics primitives (e.g. for text, images or solid color bars), but line primitives were always rendered on top of everything. New altered geometry batching implementation allows splitting uber batches on smaller batches, so it is now possible to render both lines and triangle primitives in expected Z-order. Please take a note that batches splitting mode is enabled by default, but power users may enable old uber batch rendering mode at profile level if necessary

Graphs can have a marging border but text cant:​

You can solve this by decreasing the size of a normal text space with <S=25> <S>YOUR TEXT

The Min/Max/Average Of Benchmarks do not show up!​

You need to manualy set a Hotkey for Benchmarking and Start/Stop your Benchmark for them to show in the OSD.

Capture Indicator for Screenshots/Video Recording is on the wrong position!​

The Capture Indicator will always show up in the Topmost Layer! Simply Create a New Layer where you want it and click [Edit] -> Move to Top (or Press Home button)

.ovl overlays only show in my games while the Overlay Editor is open. How can I show the .ovl overlays by just launching RTSS?​

Activate the plugin, set checkmark next to the plugin name in the list.

The font/text has no shadow?​

As Unwinder explains here: "Outline generation algorithm is defined into Global profile template in [Font] section by following lines"

Dynamic Colored Text based by Value?​

Andy K made a nice guide with pictures!

How to use two different Overlays and Switch with Hotkeys?​

You guessed it! Settings -> Plugins -> HotkeyHandler.dll -> Overlay Editor Plugin [Configure] -> [...] Load Overlay with Parameters "youroverlay.ovl"

How do i get awesome Colored Backgrounds?​

Using Background Images is explained here:
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/rtss-overlay-editor-megathread.436443/page-14#post-6126494

The plan is to keep this Thread updated with all the new/important information, help out others with their styling issues and provide some example .ovl files in the 2nd Post. If this ends up well enough it might even get Sticky?
If there is anything you think i should add in this post, feel free to mention me. I'll add it when i get the notification.

 

Collection of .OVX files:

• FullScreen 16:9 10" by Haldi

[OLD]Collection of .OVL files: (OVX Are used nowadays!)

• Rainbow v5 by MADFLOR
  
• Cyberpunk OSD by Bobnewels
• Bookmark v2 by MADFLOR
• 9 New Gauges by Bobnewels
• Nvidia/Radeon by koksnasoku
• SF Mono Stnadard by realghostvids
  
• 3 versions by Caedus
  
• Bottom Overlay by Dan Longman
  
• MicroBar-6 by Kourinn
• Box by gran172
  
• Box by Alex MrBison
  
• Horizontal Layot by realghostvids

.ovl and .ovx files are located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\RivaTuner Statistics Server\Plugins\Client\Overlays\

Help! The skin i installed looks nothing like on the Screenshot:​

Make sure you have set the correct Font (by Clicking on Raster 3D in RTSS). If that doesn't help Activate Master Settings in Layout Editor: Layouts > Edit > Master settings > OK.

If you want a Skin in this list. Send me a PM or mention me!


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Fullscreen 16:9 10" Display
Because of Emil's Post about using the OSD on a 2nd Monitor with the DesktopOverlayHost.exe i've got the idea of using this 10" Display which i bought for a Raspberry Pi as a performance monitor.





This is still a Work in Progress design but it shows most stuff for now. So i thought i'd share it early on.

For this to only show on the 2nd Monitor (aka on DesktopOverlayHost only) you need to globally deactivate the OSD. If for whatever reasons you want to show the OSD ingame anway you can achieve that via Hotkeys.
In RTSS Setup there is the HotkeyHandler.dll You have to create a custom Profile with the target profile property "EnableOSD" and set it to "1" or "0" to show or Hide the OSD.
See Attached Screenshot:






I've updated the .OVX File with mostly Internal-HAL Sensors! Only the 3 Blue ones are from HWInfo.

Download Link:
Mega.nz

 

converting a data source to another unit and adding custom formatting:

In the RTSS Overlay Editor, Data Sources you can not only put in some correction formula and a new unit label but also a format style.

In the RTSS OverlayEditorPlugin -> Data Sources-> Edit -> (for example) click "RAM usage"-> Setup

default:


converted to GB:


Name: just a description you can put in
Units: a label, just type in what you want
Format: if you want integer, leave it blank. For one decimal use %0.1f, for 2 decimals use %0.2f,... you get the point
Correction formula: x is the reported value (in MB) then divide by 1024 to get GB

 

Ohhhhhh Tanks a Lot Andy_K. I knew i've heard of that before but i just couldn't find it. Looks way better now
And now i realize why i couldn't find that. Framerate and Min/Max can be used without being specified as Extra Data Source from Afterburner. After adding them editing them was easy.

@bobnewels i've added your Cyberpunk OSD.ovl to the 2nd Post if that is Okay with you?

@Emil if you ever switch from standard MSI Afterburner OSD to a Customized RTSS Overlay on your second Monitor let us know how it went.

 

I reinstalled Windows last week, and have been trying to figure out how to get the Framerate Min, Avg, and Max to work. They don't display any data OSD or in RSS. I can display the current Framerate fine. I looked through all of the current default Hardware Plugins and nothing works.

How do you get the Framerate Min, Avg, Max values? I assume some plugin has to monitor and save the current Min, Avg, Max values as they probably aren't other sensors.

Help?? Thx
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NEVER MIND!

I finally figured out that I had to add a Benchmark Hotkey to make them display. That is very un-intuitive. There should be a checkbox or something on the Monitoring tab?

 

Mhmm, What about a Rolling Average of the Last Minute? Though that would not be usefull for "Benchmark" itself but more like a monitoring option.

 

On-Screen Text Only

While this cheap 10" Monitor worked without an issues on the RTx3090 it doesn't want to seem to work on my Vega64.... so i've restyled the OSD for "On Screen" usage ^^

First Graph is Frametimes 2nd one is GPU Frequency.

Download Link:
Mega.nz

 

I sold my GPU in September and to this day I haven't been able to buy a new one. I use integrated GPU. As soon as I buy something I will play with it.

 

Looking forward to anyone posting custom graphics and overlays to try them out

 

@Unwinder Heyho^^

we recently got a question regarding the overlay editor in combination with our own overlay.

Basically, the way it worked before was that we added an empty line and a line saying "CX OSD" above our overlay entries if more than one client is using the OSD to clearly seperate us from other clients.

Now that user switched from Afterburner to the RTSS overlay editor and although we can see that two clients are active, our overlay isn't placed below the one from the overlay editor but just at the top with the overlay editors items also being at the top overlapping it.



Is there a different way that we have to handle this, or is it something that one can configure in RTSS?

 

I've already played with the position values a bit, but for automation we'd need to know where to position our overlay depending on how large the OverlayEditor currently is.
Is there a method to get the current bottom position of it, so that we can set our position dynamically according to this + offset ?

If not, well there's always the way of adding an option for users to choose the position manually in CX, but an automatic positioning would surely be better.

 

I see, didn't think of that.
Manual position option it is, then.

 

@Unwinder I'd figured I just remove the tag when both position values are set to 0.

But who knows, maybe there is a usecase where somebody explicitly wants CX OSD to be at 0,0 when using other clients, so I guess another checkbox is needed.

Edit: Added and working as intended^^

 

Hi @Unwinder , I'm an huge fan of RTSS and I use it everyday so thank you ^^
I want to ask you if there is any plan to add a function to tie a specific overlay to a specific exe, just like you can have multiple profiles for the framerate cap. Even an "Overlay ON/OFF" selector in the .exe profile would be great. Thank you again!